Quotable quotes

[rareboy]

 

[LoveMyPeppermill]

I learned the value of humour during the time of Stalinist terror … A sense of humour was a trustworthy sign of recognition. Ever since, I have been terrified by a world that is losing its sense of humour.

-- Milan Kundera​

 

[Rand]

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[Alistair]

 

[Alistair]

I’m almost never serious, and I’m always too serious. Too deep, too shallow. Too sensitive, too cold hearted. I’m like a collection of paradoxes.

Ferdinand de Saussure

 

[Thad1527]

Never interrupt someone doing something you said couldn't be done. -Amelia Earhart

 

[gaysian85]

“Nice Hair. Where’d you buy it?”
“Off some whore. I think it was your mother!”
~The Oblongs

 

[opinterph]

“Altogether, I think we ought to read only books that bite and sting us. If the book we are reading doesn't shake us awake like a blow to the skull, why bother reading it in the first place? So that it can make us happy, as you put it?”

― Franz Kafka

 

[Rand]

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[metta]

 

[Alistair]

 

[Thad1527]

"It's a lot easier to be mean than to be nice. So mean people, on top of being jerks, are also lazy and uninventive." -Casey Neistat

 

[Alistair]

"Isn’t it amazing what a pencil can have inside?"

– Quino

 

[Rand]

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[opinterph]

“All cruelty springs from weakness.”

― Seneca, Seneca's Morals: Of a Happy Life, Benefits, Anger and Clemency

 

[rareboy]

 

[Rand]

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[opinterph]

“A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him.”

― Walter Mosley, The Long Fall

 

[Alistair]

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That sounds like something Belly would say

 

[rareboy]